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Community Rebuttal to the 2005 BRAC Recommendations To Close Fort Monmouth (open access)

Community Rebuttal to the 2005 BRAC Recommendations To Close Fort Monmouth

The concept of integrated C41SR is difficult to understand especially when considering how military C41SR systems fit together; how the technology becomes available for systems in development; how the systems are developed and provided to the field and how the systems are sustained in the field. Fort Monmouth's mission covers all of these aspects. The following definitions are provided to aid the reader in better understanding this rebuttal report.
Date: July 19, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Al D'Agostino, April 19, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Al D'Agostino, April 19, 2012

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al D’Agostino. D’Agostino joined the Merchant Marine in 1945 and received training in Brooklyn. Upon completion, he was assigned to the SS Monterey where he worked as a butcher. His first trip to the Pacific was transporting European troops, who were unhappy about the looming invasion of Japan. The war ended while the Monterey was in transit, and the soldiers returning home were a much happier bunch. Even more joyful was the reunion of families when the Monterey picked up war brides and their babies from all over the Pacific and brought them back to the States. He transferred to a Liberty ship that brought German war criminals back to the States from South America, although he believes that the majority of the passengers were actually concentration camp survivors. D’Agostino was discharged but was drafted again during the Korean War and served as a radio relay operator atop a mountain in dangerous and harsh winter conditions. When he was discharged a second time, he applied his kitchen experience and attended Cornell’s hotel school. D’Agostino became the director of food service for Trans World Airlines. Before retiring, he moved …
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: D'Agostino, Al
System: The Portal to Texas History